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The multi-millionaire owner of a care home that was shut down by authorities for posing a “serious risk to the life” of its patients took a payout worth up to £7m last year after profits surged.

Gordon Sanders, who started Runwood Homes 25 years ago and remains its sole owner and chief executive, was paid £5.1m worth of dividends, while the company also handed an unnamed director £2.2m, assumed to be Mr Sanders. The figures were revealed in documents filed at Companies House.

Authorities shuttered Runwood’s Ashbrooke home in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland in August after an unannounced inspection found there was “a serious risk to the life, health and wellbeing of all those living [there].”